Where Are You?

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Mar 292008
 

 

It is intriguing and seductive to think that a thought can save you… when it can’t, that a piece of information or “grand knowledge” can reveal the truth of life, when knowledge is not truth.

The feeling of who you are, felt with accuracy, is the only thing that can direct you to a place that is safe, or a manner of living that can provide you what you want… a thought can’t take you there and earth born “knowledge” is useless.

Give it a try.

The feeling of who you are will tell you where you are; little else can do that.

Life is lived from the inside out, and not from the outside in.

Find the place within you, where you are, and any place can be your home. Without the Dwelling Place of you, nowhere you arrive will feel like home.

You cannot be found, and you will not belong—at heart—until the Dwelling Place of you has been found. It comes through love and will lead you everywhere you go.

If your heart has never been loved, it is hard to feel it. If your heart has never been known, it is difficult to know who you are.

Don’t destroy yourself in the process of searching. Find a safe and consistent way to be loved. This may begin with devotion: giving your heart to a heart that has nothing to give in return but love.

Devotion is the key to finding your heart, not destruction or foolish risk. First be kind to yourself; then spend time in devotion. The heart will emerge, and you will know who you are.

If you have not been loved, and do not know your heart; you have not been cheated or shortchanged by life. Quite the opposite: You have a fresh starting place, an obvious point where you can begin to find the unique love of your own heart, and give it to the world.

Through devotion, you can know yourself. Through devotion you acquire a skill no other man or woman has; you acquire the ability to save another person’s life, to lead this person to his or her own heart. Do that, and keep your life as you do. Grow your heart, love it and give it away as it gives to you.

Devotion: the continued and steady practice of love.

 

 Posted by John Harrigan at 11:52 am

The Change of Love

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Mar 292008
 

The personal desire to have a life of no suffering, followed by acts of no suffering, brings about a life of no suffering.

There is no secret at all to NOT suffering.

Our human body and life are designed to give to us, to sustain us in a manner of no suffering.

We are designed and born to live in freedom, and not suffer. We need only move a little each day in the direction of no suffering and freedom… to attain it.

We need only think of no suffering, desire no suffering, demand no suffering of our lives and hearts to love ourselves into the state where suffering cannot dwell… and there is no suffering.

We must love ourselves into the state where no suffering dwells… and there is no suffering. In this state of loving, you get to this place by loving another with the love of yourself… and another, and another, and another… by loving yourself and another until love overwhealms, until pain is gone with love—the love of yourself and another.

There is no secret, but to be who you are with honesty and strength… to invent what you need in your heart and to love with all your might, to love with all your strength… this is who you are. Suffering is a mistake, a short bump on the road to freedom; and freedom is love. True freedom is unfettered, unrestrained and unreserved love.

It takes humility to see that the only solution to anything, anywhere, anytime is to love. Couldn’t there be another solution? Just for a while… maybe. “Can’t I just get even, for a second”? No. There is no time to waste when there is suffering to end.

It takes letting go of what you hate and what you’ve suffered, for the force of love to abound.

It takes getting no credit for your pain, because you’ve never needed pain to love with all your might, with all your heart and with all your life… to love, and nothing else but love your waking days and nights. This takes strength.

Build your strength a little each day by practicing love.

Practice. Practice. Practice love! Every day, every way you can possibly imagine. Become blind to the hatred and inequity of the world and love instead. Use this marvelous, incredible human power… and love!!!

Regardless of all that is happening around you. Love, instead. Love and love and love your way to life, and pleasure and freedom. Just love.

You will shed all your pain forever if you can simply love. There is absolutely nothing else to do on this earth… ever; but love and only love.

The entire Universe will love with you, because the true nature of all that exists is to love… and nothing else. But you must love to reveal this Universe and make it work for you. We must love; this does not happen by itself. That’s why were here—to love!!!

In love, we become who were meant to be.

By love, a person is changed. Through love, a family is moved in a different direction. In love a civilization and an entire planet is changed… forever. By love.

And yes, it is work to love in this world; it is not easy to love in a body designed to hate now and then. But DO love regardless. Do the work of love every day, all day long until you rest at night in love, as a person who has loved all day long.

Soon the Universe will love with you, with an ease and a comfort beyond the imagination. Soon the world of love will do the work of loving for you, all day long, with much less effort than when you began. Eventually love is a steady state of being, and life within it is a comfort… and a beginning to living right.

But it takes work… hard, hard work to begin and make progress in this practice of love, for most of us. But what else is there to do?

 Posted by John Harrigan at 10:18 am

Permanent Power

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Mar 292008
 

Permanent power is the power of love.

 

 Posted by John Harrigan at 9:40 am

Who We Are

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Mar 292008
 

Our life is not our own;
it is the Universe in motion,
an energy that’s shared.

Our tune must match the sound of Heaven.
The stars must be seen; and the sun be known.

The world must love its’ own embrace,
and we must take our place within it.

 

 Posted by John Harrigan at 9:32 am

Your Loving Heart

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Mar 292008
 

Obey your loving heart,
and you will live forever.

 

 Posted by John Harrigan at 9:21 am

The Power of Love

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Mar 292008
 

All power is the power of love;
this power, when set apart by selfish desire,
can appear yours alone,
and take any form for awhile,
until it fades and stops,
away from its’ source.

All power is the power of love,
no matter how deformed.

Power in abuse dissipates
of its own use.

A misused piece of power,
separated from its source,
goes out as a small flame,
away from its’ fire.

A human body misused and not loved,
soon expires. Know yourself; do not misuse
your desires. Take your energy to a safe
place, and live the life you know to be yours.

A life of ill will, is a life poorly used.
Where there is no love; there soon is no life.

Follow the path of love, and your physical life
will continue as long as you do.

A physical body operates in love, all day and all night,
if it is to last is the way it is built.

How is it possible to live in love all day and all night… when you have to go to work, and raise children etc.. Love, constant love, happens by deciding that is what you want of your life… foremost.

When you are clear, perfectly clear, about wanting a life of continual love… the universe come together to give you that if you work at it. There are no “secrets” to having this type of life. We are all built and designed for continual love. It sustains us.

This is accomplished, however, in the same way anything else is accomplished in life: as learning a new language, a new sport or a new occupation… with practice. It’s that simple. You decide what you want, with a determined clarity, then you practice it, and practice, and practice… until new habits are formed.

We are designed for the life we want to live. However wonderful you can imagine. If your imagination is not so strong, borrow someone else’s dream and live it. Create it by practicing, practicing and practicing until it is real and constant.

 Posted by John Harrigan at 9:20 am

When It’s Not Love

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Mar 292008
 

When it’s not love, power corrupts until all power is gone.

 

 

 Posted by John Harrigan at 9:16 am
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